New South Wales
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# 30070
Photographer unknown.
View of Sydney Harbour from the Botanic Gardens, circa 1885.
Albumen print photograph, 152 x 207 mm, laid down on its original 19th-century album page of thin card, 315 x 245 mm; both the print and mount are in fine condition. This view was most likely taken by Charles Bayliss (or possibly John Paine). It looks northeast across the harbour from close to the foreshore …
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# 30679
FOUNIET, Ernest
Allan, le jeune déporté a Botany-Bay.
Paris : Martial Ardant, 1845. Third edition. Duodecimo, contemporary blue boards with embossed gilt ornament (rubbed), spine with gilt title and ornament (bumped at head and tail), engraved frontispiece, 260 pp, illustrated; text in French; scattered light foxing, a good copy. A very early children’s book set in Australia. Muir 2598.
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# 28787
WILHELMI, Johann Friedrich Carl (1829 - 1884).
Carl Wilhelmi, German naturalist in Australia: three autograph letters, signed, with significant content on Murray Aboriginal customs and botanical collecting. June 1860; September 1860; October 1871.
Carl Wilhelmi (1829-1884), German seedsman and botanical collector, arrived in Adelaide in March 1849, having been sent out to South Australia by the Dresden Lutheran Missionary Society. During his almost twenty-year sojourn in Australia, he made major contributions in the fields of both botanical science and anthropology. Early on, Wilhelmi collected botanical specimens extensively throughout …
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# 29749
LOVEGROVE, Austin
Images of an Australian enlightenment : the story of Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie’s treatment of the convicts as a history tale for today.
London : Unicorn, [2019]. Small quarto (245 x 200 mm), publisher’s cloth backed pictorial boards with a specially commissioned design by Indigenous artist Rosella Namok; 272 pp, extensively illustrated, with Notes, Select Bibliography and Index; a new copy. ‘This is the story of two Scots: Lachlan Macquarie, governor of the British colony of New South …
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# 29654
HIS MASTER'S VOICE.
The new His Master’s Voice electrical recordings : Australian edition. June, 1929.
Cover: “Goldberg’s,” 85 Glenferrie Road, Glenferrie. “His Master’s Voice” Specialists. [Sydney : Gramophone Company Ltd. (His Master’s Voice), 1929]. Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers, stapled, 34 pp, a fine copy. Scarce. A single copy traced in Australian collections (SLV).
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# 29385
[DEVITT & MOORE; H. & C. TOULMIN]; MARSHALL & EDRIDGE (AGENTS)
Australian Line of Packet Ships, sailing the 15th of every month, for Sydney direct.
London : Marshall & Edridge, 22 February 845. Quarto sheet, 275 x 210 mm, printed recto only, a circular from the London shipping agents Marshall & Edridge, announcing the mutual co-operation of the shipping firms Devitt & Moore and H. & C. Toulmin re. the despatch of ships to Sydney, with Packets carrying cargo and …
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![[SYDNEY HARBOUR] The Beautiful Illawarra, South Coast, N.S.W.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/17181514/2013_DSFB_5142-300x227.jpg)
# 29662
PHILLIPS, H. (Harry), 1873-1944
[SYDNEY HARBOUR] The Beautiful Illawarra, South Coast, N.S.W.
[Cover title]. Willoughby, N.S.W. : H. Phillips, [circa 1930]. ‘Photographed and published by H. Phillips, Willoughby, N.S.W., for C. Moore, Bulli Pass Refreshment Kiosk (right at the Lookout), where Picnic Parties and Tourists are amply catered for’. Small oblong quarto, pictorial wrappers, containing double-sided concertina foldout with 6 b/w half-tone photographic views of the Bulli …
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# 29348
BERKOFF, Steven (1937 - )
East : elegy for the East End and its energetic waste
[Adelaide : s.n., 1978]. Octavo (260 mm), illustrated wrappers, staple bound, [46] pp; printed on cheap newsprint paper; light foxing at edges, but a very good copy. Rare theatre programme for the 1978 Australian tour of Steven Berkoff’s controversial play set in London’s East End, containing the complete playscript as well as an interview with …
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![[SHEET MUSIC] Little Bo-Peep quadrilles, founded on popular nursery rhymes.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/01/29121351/2021_DSFB_0486-300x300.jpg)
# 28569
ALBERT, Charles d' (1809-1886) (composer)
[SHEET MUSIC] Little Bo-Peep quadrilles, founded on popular nursery rhymes.
At head of title: D’Albert’s celebrated. Sydney : Published by Woolcott and Clarke, Music Sellers, Print Sellers, etc., George Street, [between 1859 and 1865?]. Folio, publisher’s decorative wrappers lithographed by F. Cunninghame, 7 pp of music notation (arrangement for piano); lower wrapper with full-page advertisement for Woolcott & Clarke’s sheet music with hundreds of titles; …
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![[GOLD RUSH] Circular announcing the opening of commission agencies in Sydney and Melbourne by the Boston firm of Newell, Hooper & Stevens. January, 1853.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/01/08102144/2021_DSFB_0009-300x300.jpg)
# 28998
NEWELL, HOOPER & STEVENS (SYDNEY & MELBOURNE); Wm. LINCOLN (BOSTON)
[GOLD RUSH] Circular announcing the opening of commission agencies in Sydney and Melbourne by the Boston firm of Newell, Hooper & Stevens. January, 1853.
Quarto-size letter sheet (250 x 200 mm), bifolium, lithograph printed on the first side only; headed ‘Boston, January 19, 1853’, the circular announces that Newell, Hooper & Stevens have formed a co-partnership ‘for the transaction of Commission Business, at SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, and respectfully tender their services to their friends, with the assurance that …
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# 28657
HETZER, William fl. 1850-67
View of Circular Quay, Sydney, taken in early 1859.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 80 x 77 mm (arched format), original plain grey mount 84 x 172 mm, verso with fully contemporary inscription in ink ‘Circular Quay’ (but lacking Hetzer’s printed label) and an accompanying contemporary caption in ink ‘Circular Quay’; both of the prints are strong and have excellent tonal range; the …
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![[GOLD RUSH] Royal Princess's Theatre, Oxford Street. This evening, ... It is Never Too Late To Mend! By Charles Reade, Esq.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/11/06145038/2020_DSFB_7853-300x300.jpg)
# 28310
ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE (LONDON); [READE, Charles 1814-1884]
[GOLD RUSH] Royal Princess’s Theatre, Oxford Street. This evening, … It is Never Too Late To Mend! By Charles Reade, Esq.
London : s.n., [1865]. Programme, small octavo (178 x 120 mm), [4] pp; embossed decorative borders, front with lithographed view of the Royal Princess’s Theatre, centre pages with full cast list and detailed ‘Programme of Scenery’; Act III, which is titled ‘Life in Australia’ and is set on the goldfields, includes the scenes ‘Log Hut …
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# 28439
CUNNINGHAM, Andrew
Studio portrait of a young brother and sister holding hands; the boy is posing with his cricket bat. Armidale, New South Wales, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 62 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘A. Cunningham, Photographic Artist, Barney Street, Armidale, New England’; the print is in good condition, as is the mount (some light toning to verso). Pioneer New England photographer Andrew Cunningham is probably best known for his 1870 carte de …
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![Railway Institute, Devonshire Street, Sydney. The Railway & Tramway Musical Society ... in Lionel Monckton's comic opera "A Country Girl" (By arrangement with Messrs. J. C. Williamson Ltd.). Monday 22nd [to] Saturday 27th September, 1913.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/11/13103607/2020_DSFB_8006-300x300.jpg)
# 28486
RAILWAY & TRAMWAY MUSICAL SOCIETY (SYDNEY)
Railway Institute, Devonshire Street, Sydney. The Railway & Tramway Musical Society … in Lionel Monckton’s comic opera “A Country Girl” (By arrangement with Messrs. J. C. Williamson Ltd.). Monday 22nd [to] Saturday 27th September, 1913.
Sydney : Carter’s Builder Printing Works, [1913]. Narrow quarto (280 x 110 mm), self-wrappers (featuring advertisements for Anthony Horderns’ men’s and women’s fashion and Fine Art Gallery); [16] pp, with numerous illustrated advertisements and photographic illustrations including portraits of stars Miss Mabel Batchelor and Reg Riemenschneider, musical director Leo Grouse and Railway & Tramway Musical …
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# 28009
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE
Kiama (New South Wales). Military survey of Australia
Melbourne : Department of Defence, 1932. Lithographed map, 430 x 720 mm (sheet), printed in colour, laid on linen, some splits along the folds, card covers. Rare military survey of the coastal region of Kiama.
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# 28309
NEWSBOY (publisher)
Photographic portrait of champion Danish West Indian-Australian heavyweight boxer Peter Jackson – “The Black Prince” – in a fighting stance. New York, circa 1890.
New York, USA : Newsboy, [circa 1890]. Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 167 x 109 mm (mount); mount with the publisher’s imprint and ’73. Peter Jackson’; the image has lost some contrast, and the mount has a water stain at left edge (not affecting the albumen print) and a chipped corner. A rare studio …